I’m only 20 years old and I’m not even married & don’t have kids yet, but your videos are already making me so inspired & excited to homeschool my future kids someday!
We homeschool year round as well, 4 days a week and LOVE it! We have also been able to skip the first 20 lessons or so in our curriculum because it is built in review for students who have a standard school schedule. We just quiz them until we get to a part they dont know and start there. : )
We do more year round schooling...but take off about 6 weeks in the summer. The hardest thing for me is that really everything we do is learning of some sort...so I feel like I could count it all, yet the public schooler from my past in me only thinks I should count sit down work. :-) I don't know why it's such an internal battle.
I’d love to see how you have your binder organized and what you keep in there. I’m always looking for new ways to keep myself organized as a homeschool momma.
We homeschool here in Indiana. We have to get in 180 days from July 1st to June 30th. I break down those days over the course of the year and yes we homeschool year around. I try to follow a sabbath schedule, where we school for 6 weeks and take the 7th week off. I love how you broke down the courses for each semester so you can see where you need to pick up slack. This is my second year homeschooling so we are still trying to figure out our routine. Blessings, I am so glad I found your channel as well.
I might add that we do 5 days a week but my children are usually begging to do it 7 days a week. We do hands on life skills learning every day which I try to explain to them is still school. :)
Homeschooling year round definitely makes sense! We are doing a ‘get ready for the x grade’ so we don’t forget things this summer. I think it’s super helpful!
As a fascinated viewer from Switzerland I have a couple of questions: - do all the kids have the same amount of lessons per day or do you vary according to their age? - how do you know how your kids are doing compared to what would be expected from them in public schools? - do you need some kind of permit/skills to homeschool? I would loved to learn the way you teach your kids! In Switzerland public schools are year round as well, the longest vacation is five weeks in the summer. Love to see more of homeschooling on this channel!
This was encouraging! This is my first year homeschool my 5 and 6 year old kids. I’m so excited I HATE schedules. I thrive on spontaneity and flexibility. I’m doing the good and the beautiful this year as well! Mine came in the mail yesterday and it was like Christmas!
Thank you so much, Angie, for sharing this part of your family’s life with us! I’m loving all these homeschool videos! You have given me to confidence to return to homeschooling after trying out private school for a year! Homeschooling is the best!
Sooo happy to find your new channel! 😍 I was an elementary school teacher, but now I am a stay at home foster/adoptive mom of four. Next week is my first week homeschooling my oldest three! Even though I have taught in the public school system, it is such a different ballgame getting to tailor specifically to each child and the needs/schedule of the family. You have helped me so much. Thank you!
Thank you sooooo much for your videos! I am new to homeschooling and your insight has made it feel like a fun new chapter in our lives rather than a scary world I know nothing about. I didn't plan on homeschooling. My son has Sensory Processing Disorder and was unable to handle the kindergarten classroom so I decided to take him out of traditional school. We just finished our first week at home. Honestly, he has been leading the way and taking me through what a school day is while I wait at the door for the curriculum I ordered to arrive haha. But honestly, I can already feel how rewarding homeschooling is going to be and I am so excited for this journey. Thank you for giving a glimpse into your world and how you get it all done. I truly appreciate it so much!
LIVING for each new video from this channel🙌🏼I don’t even have kids let alone homeschool anyone but having been invested in you and your beautiful family for a while now I love this insight into how you put your all into every one of your kids💛
I home schooled for 8 years. EVERY year was a little different. I loved the years that we did more unit studies and less curriculum. We did so much more hands on learning, reading books and writing about them. If I had it to do all over again I would probably lean more towards the unschooling way of doing things. Focus more on learning from life than using curriculum and making kids sit and be still for an hour at a time. If I had a penny for every time I encouraged a child to "stay focused" or "are you getting your work done or are you looking out the window?" I would be wealthy. One FUN thing we did on our 5th day was go to the park. We would take a book, pillow and blanket and lay under the trees and read. We talked about what we each were reading and it gave me time to read my own book. Having a paper book you are reading is a wonderful example to set for kids.
We Homeschool year-round, too. We are about to start our 7th year and there was only one year that we didn't do it year round. It gives us SO much flexibility, which is one of my absolute favorite things about Homeschooling. 💕
Australia and New Zealand public schools system is a year round system with three sets of two week breaks and one 6 week break over christmas/summer. Works great and kids don't get burnt out either
I don’t have kids yet but when I do, this is what I want to do for them for schooling! Loving this new channel! Thank you for putting so much time into making these videos, as well as on your other channel!
Yay for year round homeschooling! Its great I love it and work well for our family. Love your idea of writing out how many lessons and then crossing them off as you go! I do this but a little differently. I copy or type out the table of contents for all the curriculum we use and as we complete it I write the date and highlight it. I make a binder or have it spiral bond for each kid along with a reading log in the back. I don't schedule anything anymore after 5 years of homeschooling I have found I'm an over scheduler and set us up to fail or fall behind every time i plan it out. So now I just keep an idea of how many lessons we need to do in a week and try to reach it but if not oh well; we just pick up where we left off. Simple is what our family needs and I learned it the hard way. We don't really have a set number of days a week we homeschool we just go with the flow of what's going on in life. So weeks we might do 2 days and some we might do 6 days. I made a simple way of keeping the flow going. I use a binder ring and write on a note card each things that needs to be done independently on white cards and with mom on pick and as a family on purple along with breakfast, lunch and chore mixed in between. It seems to work really well and its simple for us especially me. No more spending 30 minutes before bed every night writing out what they need to do everyday. And anything that is on a loop make them all the same color and move the one we completed that day to the back of its color stack on I always know what we're on the next day. No stress and no worries or extra brain space waisted! Thanks for sharing and I hope this is helpful to anyone who read comments! Have a God Blessed day!!
These are the types of videos I'd love to see on this channel: Hands-on activities that you do beyond book work Record keeping Testing: What tests do you do? How and when do you schedule them? What are your philosophies of education? What "style" of homeschooling do you align with the most? How did you come up with the school name? If you homeschool through high school, how do you ensure that the child gets sufficient credits to be able to get their diploma? What does your Bible time look like? Do you ever feel like your kids are bored being in their home all day? What factors do you look at when you decide if one of your kids goes to regular school or is homeschooled that year? Maybe this will give you some video ideas. 😉 I LOVE your channels! I live in NC, and I'm considering homeschooling.
We do year round homeschooling too. I absolutely love the fact that my children learn so much better when they don’t have huge breaks. We live in Arizona do schooling during our hot summer months just makes more sense then giving them months off that they can’t really do much. So we take off from about the middle of December to the middle of January this gives us time to enjoy the cool weather and do lots of walks outside enjoy park time more and do lots of fun crafts and activities outside. We also do a four day schedule and it’s so nice to know we have that extra day for projects games and other fun schooling stuff. Loved the video keep them coming 👍
We do actual ciriculum as a standard school year, for the most part. But I like taking a week off at thanksgiving and 2 off at Christmas. We have to travel to see family (about 19 hour drive) so we take the entire time off to spend with family. However, I do a lot of arts and craft educational things during the summer, and I recently got my 6 year old INTO READING! I could not be more overjoyed that he's finally enjoying it, so that has been a huge blessing for us!
I love these videos because even though I have a handful of years to plan out what I’m going to do as far as school goes, I am in love with the idea of homeschooling and your videos help me figure out ways I may be able to go about doing so when the time comes!
I think I’m going to write all our lessons down and mark them down as we go. Thanks for sharing that tip! I always start off the year with so many great projects planned, but I never feel like I get even half of them done. I think I’ll write all those down too so I can better visualize what I’m actually accomplishing. Great video!
We do a lot of gardening and canning so I tend to start slow during late August and then start picking it up more when the garden is done producing. We typically do 4 days a week unless we know that something is coming then we do 5 to try and get ahead a little if that makes sense. We never totally stop during the summer because life is learning, we just change more more ‘life’ things. Like tieing shoe laces and chores and gardening etc. I am excited to see your room tour. We’re moving in about a month and will have a better spot for all my homeschool things
We started in July and are doing year round this year, 5 days a week. We are a military family and at the end of the year we are moving across the country to a new base. When we move my husband is using all his saved up days to take 45 days off to spend the holidays with family and look for a house. Luckily our new base is only a few hours from our family! We are also expecting a new baby in February so I'm sure we will be taking a few weeks off then!
I'm no way related to homeschool.. but still here to hear Angie speaking.. I'm addicted to whatever videos u make.. "this gathered nest's ardent fan.."
We homeschool year round too! Start in July. We do breaks as we need and take all December off. This year we are expecting a baby so we will crunch time each month and then take December, January off. Love that we can be flexible, but still learn even on "days off". We also applied the loop system this week! So great! Thanks for sharing that idea. It will help take away any guilt of not completing work on our weekly schedule and stress overral. Now we get more quality content over quantity rush rush rush. Also will help avoid burn outs.
We school year around. We feel that the retention is important too. We also felt like it was a more natural flow to real life. We also have found that summer is a good time for us to school because it is so hot here in AZ (today it will be 115). We like to stay inside so why not get some lessons in while we beat the heat.
I homeschool my teens and we basically do the same thing. We homeschool year round, beginning and ending our school year every spring. We plan 16 weeks off each year and spread them out as you do. We now school 5 days a week now that high school is upon us though.
My girls are about to be a senior in highschool & freshman in college. When I traditionally homeschooled them, we did not do year 'round as we wanted a bigger summer break, but we did 4 days a week (a lot of curricula we used was set up for 4 days of book work), and left Fridays for field trips, homeschool group, play dates, etc.... We also took vacations at times when not everyone else did and that was awesome! Disney in Oct is GREAT!! My hubby travels a lot, so allowed us to accompany him to some places we might not have otherwise been able to visit, and yes, so many opportunities for learning "in the field". Wouldn't trade our years homeschooling (7 yrs) & then hybrid schooling (last 3-4 yrs) for the world. We parents are the primary educators for our children. Good job, and hope you have a great first year of homeschooling FIVE!! 😳🙏😁God bless you mama Angela!! 💪🏼😊
We are trying 4 days a week with year round schooling this year. I think it will help us stick to a better routine. I would love to see what you keep in your binder that you pulled your yearly overview from as well as a video with your hobonichi! I have a schedule just to keep us on track of our routine. Not that we have to follow it strictly but a guide to how I want our day to go. Thank you for the video!
We homeschool year around and do 3-4 days a week depending on how much I work that week (part time nurse) and sometimes do catch up on evenings and weekends. Ya do what ya gotta do! We love school at home! ❤️
We also school year round and school 4 days a week! Love the flexibility it allows us! And totally agree about taking trips and vacations during the school year. This year we switched to a calendar year schedule, so our school year runs from January-November. We take most of December off and then start fresh at the New Year. It is working well so far!
North Carolina too. In the Raleigh area. We school 4 days a week and have tried different schedules we’ve done modified none year 6 weeks on 1 week off. This year we are going straight thru and will have 2 months break. I have high schools and they plan to work and travel during the break
Just came across your channel! I have decided to home school my soon to be first grader with two other children at home ages 3 and almost a year old. Thanks for the help and guidance!
We are year round homeschoolers as well(ish). We ended May 18th and we started back July 9th with math and language arts, but we do a co-op with friends for science and history so we are picking that up in the fall. Until then we are doing various nature studies and interest led learning. The fall is also when we will add in the rest of our subjects. I found this year that our 7 week break was way too long and my kids forgot simple math concepts that they had learned last school year. So now we are reviewing math. In the past we’ve continued math and language arts through the summer so I already feel like we are behind. But we will plug along until we take a week off for the beach, then jump into all our other subjects. Then we roughly do a 6 week on, 1 week off schedule- except for between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I love the flexibility that homeschooling provides and so excited to see your journey this year with 5!
We will definitely be doing year-round homeschooling. The school system here breaks from the end of June until September. We are teachers and definitely see the need for review as most students forget what they learned in the previous school year. Thanks for sharing!
I homeschool 3 kids and love year round schooling. It feels much more flexible and less stressful when there are interruptions. Really loving your new channel!!!! 😆💟
We are homeschoolers too & we homeschool 5 days a wk. We just started traditional homeschooling in January, so we are thinking of doing year round we started our new school year yesterday. Hope u & ur lil ones have an amazing homeschooling year.☺️
I am becomimg a teacher and it's really interesting for me to hear the pros of homeschooling and how the "System" works. I really enjoy your second Chanel with this special topics. Lots of love from germany 😘
We year round homeschool too! We do anywhere from 3-4 days a week bc of life! Like you said with a large family there is always something going on. We just need that flexibility. And I really enjoy taking time off when needed or for trips during the off season.
I completely agree about the positives of year-round homeschooling. I wasn’t homeschooled, but ever since I started college, I never took a summer off. I get more out of my college experience without long breaks- and I’ve been in college for 5 years (and counting). I can’t picture myself ever having a “summer break” for me or my future children.
We homeschool year round at the moment. We also school 4 days per week, clean and play on the fifth too (this is mostly my prek and k). My grade 12er schools everyday usually, unless he is far enough ahead to take a day off.
Great video, this is our fifth year homeschooling and our 3 year doing school year round. It is really nice to be able to take small breaks when we need them. Over the past few years myself and/or my daughters have had some medical issues that required extra doctor appointments. Love the flexibility. Thanks for this new channel!
Love your videos! This is our second year homeschooling and I will have 5 kiddos this year as well! We moved to more of a year round schedule this year and I'm excited to see how it pans out!
I just wanted to say thank you SO very much for your amazing info, tips, and advice!! You're awesome!! I'm new to homeschooling... so you and this one other lady that I watch have been absolute sanity savers for me!! Just thank you❤
I've loved watching your other channel and now I'll be following here. :) I'm not having children yet, but I love hearing about homeschooling because my significant other was homeschooled for high school (it helped him A LOT) and I have loved the idea of homeschooling forever. Thank you for sharing!
We do the same thing with year round homeschooling. Usually in the summer months it's much more laid back and we don't do all the things, but we always do something. Math, spelling, some great library books are always part of the equation. We do educational vacations too.
I homeschool mine year round and aim for 3-4 days a week of book work. We just took 3 weeks off for various activities and will be starting up on Monday. Then we will go for 6 weeks. Then it is 1 week off for the beach. Love the flexibility that going year round provides.
I belong to the year round phylosophy and might do the 4day a week thing. 180days is the standard if you do four days a week work twelve week term take a week off then go back its about the same. Very young children yet. I have childcraft book set and I am setting up a system with that to do one listen a day. Rotating through different subjects with a focus on holidays and birthday volume "calander" I am working on deciding how to organize. We will increase complexity as the children approach school age and will actually be doing school.
We homeschool 4 days a week also- Tuesday-Friday. Monday are our co-op day and my husbands day off so we don't school on that day. I also try to make any appointments for Monday's too. We also school from September to may and have a nice long summer- it's amazing!! We do have to do a little bit of review at the beginning, but a lot of our curriculum is kind of made for that anyway, so it works out fine for us!
d y it's just a bunch of homeschool families that come together to do school together!! Some co-ops are super laid back and just do events/field trips together, while others are more academic- getting together to do classes together. We attend an academic co-op. Once a week for two different semesters around 30 families get together and basically have school!! It's great! So many great relationships and so many greats resources!! It's been invaluable to our family!
I’m a year-rounder as well! My kids are 4 and 6 so I really only have formal curriculum for my oldest. We stick to a four day a week schedule for flexibility, plus with her age I like to take it a little easier on her. I LOVE your idea on counting out every lesson and making a checkable list to see how you’re progressing throughout the year. I’m going and doing that right now. I’m loving your new channel! I mean I love your other channel too, but I’m addicted to homeschool content! Lol
We usually homeschool year round. This year we took some time off during the summer for my foot surgery and the boys have been so bored. Definitely going to continue year round from here on out.
Agree we started homeschooling Feb this year, I knew year around was going to be our go to. Both boys in 2 months they are already 1 grade ahead of their grade level! Hour and half a day 3 was this summer off.....amazing! We haven’t rushed but also no reviewing for months.
We have 5 kids, ages 16, 12, 3, 2, and almost 4 months. The oldest two homeschool, using an online curriculum. We also do year round homeschooling, 4 days a week generally. Depending on what appointments we have each week, sometimes more, sometimes less. We plan on homeschooling the youngest three also, when they’re ready. I plan on making my own curriculum with them, so that’ll be interesting and full of fails, I’m sure. I love following your family!
We homeschool year round and 5 days/week. For the same reasons: we vacation when we want and we also take a day or two off throughout the year for different reasons. Rather than having a “makeup” day, it all just balances out. We love it and have been keeping a pretty quick pace curriculum wise. Though we are starting My Father’s World in September and that definitely has more scheduled curriculum than I had been incorporating myself.
This year and the past 3 years (starting 4th homeschool year)..we have started the 1st full week in August and every 6-8 weeks or so we take a week or two off. We school for 5 days a week. But our Fridays are our fun days (field trips, activities) But our next school year we will be transitioning into year round!
I would love to see what your binder looks like! This is our second year homeschooling, and I have struggled to find a good binder system for planning that actually works for me. I tend to be a free spirit too and schedules are not my thing at all.
My dad is a public school Spanish teacher, so we always did kind of a hybrid calendar. We would have a traditional summer break, but we did school five days a week and any days that he had in-services, but then we would usually take a fall break and other long weekends here and there. I was also an only child, so it was easier for us to be flexible :) On a side note - I love your haircut! And I would love to see a tutorial on how you did your makeup over on your other channel, it's super cute!
I have no kids, but I love your family channel and I’m fascinated that you can home school, it’s not something that is really big in my country and I think the few that do are more restricted in what/when they have to do it (though I could be wrong!). I just love your family, your attitude and outlook and it makes me smile to watch your channels so of course I had to also subscribe to this one despite not having kids! 😁
Hi! I homeschool 5 days a week BUT one day is entirely devoted to our Co-Op. So, kinda 4 days a week. I am schooling a 4 and 6 year old with a tagging along toddler. This is our second year homeschooling and our first year trying to school year round. We did a few review lessons last summer that seemed to work well for my eldest and helping her to remember what we learned. So, now I am hoping to do three days of school each week this Summer. I mainly focus on Math, reading and writing at this stage so scheduling has not been complex for me, yet. But, your video was encouraging thanks!
We totally do this too, even though we technically homeschool through a charter. I love to have time off when we want and have time to do home projects when we need it.
Hello Angie, in the Netherlands it is illegal to homeschool your kids, but wish I could have homeschooled my adoptionson. He has had so much problems in school. I think you're doing great. 🌻🌼
We homeschool year round and I cannot imagine taking 3 months off now. We all wouldn't do well :) We do 6 weeks on and 1 week off - a little more in December. I would love to see your planner and lesson checklists or a visual of where you keep the lessons broken down. I guess where do you check off each lesson completed? LOOOOOOOVE your new channel!
This will be our first year on a year-round schedule for a few reasons, most of what you already listed. You mentioned retention, which was a big reason for me, but also... Trying to stick to something close to what the public schools are using resulted in a lot of burn out for both me and my daughter, so the shorter blocks of homeschooling with a nice week or two in between to reset ourselves has really been nice. Right now, we're using a five-day week, but I might transition us to four. With me only needing 160-180 days to cover materials, I currently have more and longer breaks than I'd like, and I think switching to four days would not only give us a more relaxed week but would also space out my school year a little better.
I love hearing your approach. In our house for the summer our way of learning is strictly hands on and outdoor learning. And of course our summer reading program. Love your videos by the way!! Look forward to more 🤗
Thank you so much for your video! I'm a homeschool Mom. This will be our first year-round Homeschool. I'm doing videos but in spanish lol Have fun with everything and God bless you and your family!
We started last year pretty much following the schools in our area, but we started back this week which is sooner than the schools in our area and I plan to be able to take a longer Christmas break and a shorter summer next year. I found this summer was too long and they needed lots of refreshers. So I guess I’m leaning more toward year round 😊
I love the crossing off number of lessons idea!!! Super helpful. We do 6 weeks on and one week off! We started this week since it’s so hot where I live. But we have been off since the end of April (when it was perfect weather to be outside).
I am hoping to homeschool and I plan to do it year round. We are Jewish so holidays pop up all the time and sometimes frequently so it makes sense to be able to take a nice big break for Passover and during the fall holidays.
Very similar to how I plan. I’m a type B with perfectionist tendencies 🤦♀️so I can’t do tradition lesson plans. Instead I make checklists. I take some time before our school year starts, binge watch RUclips videos, and type out lists of the lessons for each resource we’re going to use in a Google doc. Print those out and put them in my homeschool mom binder. Then we just “do the next thing” and cross off as we go. Helps me know where we’re at and what we need to do next without the stress and failure of detailed lesson plans.
FIRST OFF- You're beautiful. jeeze louise. Second- You, my friend, are such a Rockstar. I'm a pretty darn organized person with my 4 kids, one having a learning disability, but thinking of taking on homeschooling seems absolutely terrifying to me. This sounds like so much work, so I completely commend you for it. I subscribed to this channel thinking in some way it may help me because I do a lot of tutoring and school work with my stepdaughter who has a learning disability and I'm always looking for ways to help her.
Just a quick question to homeschool parents. Do you not worry about them missing out, I’m 25 and I can’t help but think about how many mad and crazy and amazing memories I have from high school, being part of school bands, sports teams, going to proms and house parties, sleepovers, the amazing relationship with teachers and other peers. Although I don’t think homeschool kids are anti social, there is a large part of that school feeling you can’t recreate.. and I would really hate to see any of my kids miss out on all the amazing memories I got to make
Keira Manners I can't speak for every homeschooler but I was concerned about the same before homeschooling but there are so many opportunities to be involved in groups, co-ops, field trips etc that we could be out everyday busy if we wanted to. Also homeschoolers create their own atmosphere of relationships, sleep overs, vacations together etc. We can enjoy all the splash pads and pools together making memories while everyone else is in school, head to the beach with other families when it's not crowded and believe it or not we still have yearbooks, class pictures, prom etc. Once you are in the homeschooling world it's a community in and of itself, they don't miss out on a thing.
Keira Manners You can still do a lot of that outside of school if you have them participate in activities. You can still do sports and creative classes outside of school like ballet or soccer. So you can have friendships through that, have sleepovers, and develop relationships with your instructors. Also there are homeschool groups were you can meet with other kids and go on field trips. The only thing I’m unsure of is dances like prom.
There are lots of resources for these things outside of school. Community centers, homeschool groups, ect... They can play sports, they make friends, they go to dances. Some even have prom. Many states allow homeschoolers to participate in school sports and drama/music programs. They can do the same things public school kids do as far as extra-curricular things go.
I am starting my homeschool journey with my 2 year old... we do about 15-20 monday through saturday, and church on sunday, as time allows. We get pretty busy but i cover colors numbers phonics signlanguage sensory play and shapes daily so if we skip a day or two i know were good. Also shes two so shes contantly learning anyway soo..
Love this video! I have a 1.5 year old and a babe on the way, and I can’t wait to homeschool them! How do you manage homeschooling kiddos of different ages/grades? I would love to see maybe a look into a sample of how to teach a 4th and 6th grader and how you keep everything straight if that makes sense? Seriously LOVE this content Angie, thank you!
Just found your channel and loving it! We are in our first homeschool year homeschooling and youtube has been so helpful. Thanks for sharing. We do a 4 day a week schedule and vacation in the off seasons too here in NC!
I absolutely love watching your videos. Thank you for your tips. I have decided to home school my kiddos for the first time this coming school year....which is a bit overwhelming when thought about..BUT I am also excited about due to the flexibility. I have decided to use the FLEX program with our school system.. which is part of their Virtual School but it's NOT full time. It is more catered to a "home school" schedule. Again, thank you for your videos. FYI.. real mom and raw moments with baby screaming in the background... I LOVE IT!!!
Not homeschooling yet, my baby's only 6m, I'm just doing research and getting ideas. Right now I'm thinking we'll do 4 days a week and then have a library day. I also think I want to have a break from Thanksgiving until after New Years because I always thought it was silly to go back to school for that brief few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas where nothing gets done.
Love this. I've just recently decided to do a year-round homeschooling. Still gotta do that math and planning to see what exactly our family will need when the curricula come in, but it just seems like the best option for us. And I agree with the off-season thing: Nothing like going to the beach in October when no one is around! Fills my introverted heart with joy, lol!
I’m only 20 years old and I’m not even married & don’t have kids yet, but your videos are already making me so inspired & excited to homeschool my future kids someday!
Totally agree with the year round homeschooling and we make sure every trip we take has a learning portion as well.
The two channels I watch.. I love to see your support with The Gathered Nest.
We homeschool year round as well, 4 days a week and LOVE it! We have also been able to skip the first 20 lessons or so in our curriculum because it is built in review for students who have a standard school schedule. We just quiz them until we get to a part they dont know and start there. : )
We do more year round schooling...but take off about 6 weeks in the summer. The hardest thing for me is that really everything we do is learning of some sort...so I feel like I could count it all, yet the public schooler from my past in me only thinks I should count sit down work. :-) I don't know why it's such an internal battle.
I’d love to see how you have your binder organized and what you keep in there. I’m always looking for new ways to keep myself organized as a homeschool momma.
I really enjoy this new Channel - I am not a mum yet but I really want to inform myself more on the topic! Thanks for sharing your tips
We homeschool here in Indiana. We have to get in 180 days from July 1st to June 30th. I break down those days over the course of the year and yes we homeschool year around. I try to follow a sabbath schedule, where we school for 6 weeks and take the 7th week off. I love how you broke down the courses for each semester so you can see where you need to pick up slack. This is my second year homeschooling so we are still trying to figure out our routine. Blessings, I am so glad I found your channel as well.
I might add that we do 5 days a week but my children are usually begging to do it 7 days a week. We do hands on life skills learning every day which I try to explain to them is still school. :)
I would love to know what a daily schedule looks like :)
Juli Davis I think she said in a different video that once they got into a routine she would do a Day in the life.
In Australia we have school holidays throughout the year in two week blocks. Our Christmas/summer school holidays are the longest at about 6 weeks.💖🇦🇺
Woo fellow Aussie
Same in NZ - I didn't know this was 'year round'
Same in Germany
Same in South Africa June is second longest (like 3 weeks)
Very similar in UK except only 2 weeks at Christmas then 6 weeks in our summer
Your hair is so fabulous!! I absolutely love it! Loved the video!
Homeschooling year round definitely makes sense! We are doing a ‘get ready for the x grade’ so we don’t forget things this summer. I think it’s super helpful!
As a fascinated viewer from Switzerland I have a couple of questions:
- do all the kids have the same amount of lessons per day or do you vary according to their age?
- how do you know how your kids are doing compared to what would be expected from them in public schools?
- do you need some kind of permit/skills to homeschool?
I would loved to learn the way you teach your kids! In Switzerland public schools are year round as well, the longest vacation is five weeks in the summer. Love to see more of homeschooling on this channel!
This was encouraging! This is my first year homeschool my 5 and 6 year old kids. I’m so excited I HATE schedules. I thrive on spontaneity and flexibility.
I’m doing the good and the beautiful this year as well! Mine came in the mail yesterday and it was like Christmas!
Thank you so much, Angie, for sharing this part of your family’s life with us! I’m loving all these homeschool videos! You have given me to confidence to return to homeschooling after trying out private school for a year! Homeschooling is the best!
Sooo happy to find your new channel! 😍 I was an elementary school teacher, but now I am a stay at home foster/adoptive mom of four. Next week is my first week homeschooling my oldest three! Even though I have taught in the public school system, it is such a different ballgame getting to tailor specifically to each child and the needs/schedule of the family. You have helped me so much. Thank you!
Thank you sooooo much for your videos! I am new to homeschooling and your insight has made it feel like a fun new chapter in our lives rather than a scary world I know nothing about. I didn't plan on homeschooling. My son has Sensory Processing Disorder and was unable to handle the kindergarten classroom so I decided to take him out of traditional school. We just finished our first week at home. Honestly, he has been leading the way and taking me through what a school day is while I wait at the door for the curriculum I ordered to arrive haha. But honestly, I can already feel how rewarding homeschooling is going to be and I am so excited for this journey. Thank you for giving a glimpse into your world and how you get it all done. I truly appreciate it so much!
LIVING for each new video from this channel🙌🏼I don’t even have kids let alone homeschool anyone but having been invested in you and your beautiful family for a while now I love this insight into how you put your all into every one of your kids💛
I home schooled for 8 years. EVERY year was a little different. I loved the years that we did more unit studies and less curriculum. We did so much more hands on learning, reading books and writing about them. If I had it to do all over again I would probably lean more towards the unschooling way of doing things. Focus more on learning from life than using curriculum and making kids sit and be still for an hour at a time. If I had a penny for every time I encouraged a child to "stay focused" or "are you getting your work done or are you looking out the window?" I would be wealthy. One FUN thing we did on our 5th day was go to the park. We would take a book, pillow and blanket and lay under the trees and read. We talked about what we each were reading and it gave me time to read my own book. Having a paper book you are reading is a wonderful example to set for kids.
We Homeschool year-round, too. We are about to start our 7th year and there was only one year that we didn't do it year round. It gives us SO much flexibility, which is one of my absolute favorite things about Homeschooling. 💕
I like these idea and it helps the kids retain the knowledge and taking trips is so much nicer with less people out.
Australia and New Zealand public schools system is a year round system with three sets of two week breaks and one 6 week break over christmas/summer. Works great and kids don't get burnt out either
Please make a video about your cleaning-day and the chores that the kids can do too! 😊
I don’t have kids yet but when I do, this is what I want to do for them for schooling! Loving this new channel! Thank you for putting so much time into making these videos, as well as on your other channel!
Yay for year round homeschooling! Its great I love it and work well for our family. Love your idea of writing out how many lessons and then crossing them off as you go! I do this but a little differently. I copy or type out the table of contents for all the curriculum we use and as we complete it I write the date and highlight it. I make a binder or have it spiral bond for each kid along with a reading log in the back. I don't schedule anything anymore after 5 years of homeschooling I have found I'm an over scheduler and set us up to fail or fall behind every time i plan it out. So now I just keep an idea of how many lessons we need to do in a week and try to reach it but if not oh well; we just pick up where we left off. Simple is what our family needs and I learned it the hard way. We don't really have a set number of days a week we homeschool we just go with the flow of what's going on in life. So weeks we might do 2 days and some we might do 6 days. I made a simple way of keeping the flow going. I use a binder ring and write on a note card each things that needs to be done independently on white cards and with mom on pick and as a family on purple along with breakfast, lunch and chore mixed in between. It seems to work really well and its simple for us especially me. No more spending 30 minutes before bed every night writing out what they need to do everyday. And anything that is on a loop make them all the same color and move the one we completed that day to the back of its color stack on I always know what we're on the next day. No stress and no worries or extra brain space waisted! Thanks for sharing and I hope this is helpful to anyone who read comments! Have a God Blessed day!!
These are the types of videos I'd love to see on this channel:
Hands-on activities that you do beyond book work
Record keeping
Testing: What tests do you do? How and when do you schedule them?
What are your philosophies of education?
What "style" of homeschooling do you align with the most?
How did you come up with the school name?
If you homeschool through high school, how do you ensure that the child gets sufficient credits to be able to get their diploma?
What does your Bible time look like?
Do you ever feel like your kids are bored being in their home all day?
What factors do you look at when you decide if one of your kids goes to regular school or is homeschooled that year?
Maybe this will give you some video ideas. 😉 I LOVE your channels! I live in NC, and I'm considering homeschooling.
We do year round homeschooling too. I absolutely love the fact that my children learn so much better when they don’t have huge breaks. We live in Arizona do schooling during our hot summer months just makes more sense then giving them months off that they can’t really do much. So we take off from about the middle of December to the middle of January this gives us time to enjoy the cool weather and do lots of walks outside enjoy park time more and do lots of fun crafts and activities outside. We also do a four day schedule and it’s so nice to know we have that extra day for projects games and other fun schooling stuff. Loved the video keep them coming 👍
We do actual ciriculum as a standard school year, for the most part. But I like taking a week off at thanksgiving and 2 off at Christmas. We have to travel to see family (about 19 hour drive) so we take the entire time off to spend with family. However, I do a lot of arts and craft educational things during the summer, and I recently got my 6 year old INTO READING! I could not be more overjoyed that he's finally enjoying it, so that has been a huge blessing for us!
I love these videos because even though I have a handful of years to plan out what I’m going to do as far as school goes, I am in love with the idea of homeschooling and your videos help me figure out ways I may be able to go about doing so when the time comes!
I think I’m going to write all our lessons down and mark them down as we go. Thanks for sharing that tip! I always start off the year with so many great projects planned, but I never feel like I get even half of them done. I think I’ll write all those down too so I can better visualize what I’m actually accomplishing. Great video!
We do a lot of gardening and canning so I tend to start slow during late August and then start picking it up more when the garden is done producing. We typically do 4 days a week unless we know that something is coming then we do 5 to try and get ahead a little if that makes sense.
We never totally stop during the summer because life is learning, we just change more more ‘life’ things. Like tieing shoe laces and chores and gardening etc.
I am excited to see your room tour. We’re moving in about a month and will have a better spot for all my homeschool things
We started in July and are doing year round this year, 5 days a week. We are a military family and at the end of the year we are moving across the country to a new base. When we move my husband is using all his saved up days to take 45 days off to spend the holidays with family and look for a house. Luckily our new base is only a few hours from our family! We are also expecting a new baby in February so I'm sure we will be taking a few weeks off then!
I'm no way related to homeschool.. but still here to hear Angie speaking.. I'm addicted to whatever videos u make.. "this gathered nest's ardent fan.."
We homeschool year round too! Start in July. We do breaks as we need and take all December off. This year we are expecting a baby so we will crunch time each month and then take December, January off. Love that we can be flexible, but still learn even on "days off". We also applied the loop system this week! So great! Thanks for sharing that idea. It will help take away any guilt of not completing work on our weekly schedule and stress overral. Now we get more quality content over quantity rush rush rush. Also will help avoid burn outs.
I would love to see your cleaning and chore routines. Anything to do with chores really
Right there with you with why we homeschool year round and only 4 days a week. Great explanation!
We school year around. We feel that the retention is important too. We also felt like it was a more natural flow to real life. We also have found that summer is a good time for us to school because it is so hot here in AZ (today it will be 115). We like to stay inside so why not get some lessons in while we beat the heat.
I homeschool my teens and we basically do the same thing. We homeschool year round, beginning and ending our school year every spring. We plan 16 weeks off each year and spread them out as you do. We now school 5 days a week now that high school is upon us though.
My girls are about to be a senior in highschool & freshman in college. When I traditionally homeschooled them, we did not do year 'round as we wanted a bigger summer break, but we did 4 days a week (a lot of curricula we used was set up for 4 days of book work), and left Fridays for field trips, homeschool group, play dates, etc.... We also took vacations at times when not everyone else did and that was awesome! Disney in Oct is GREAT!! My hubby travels a lot, so allowed us to accompany him to some places we might not have otherwise been able to visit, and yes, so many opportunities for learning "in the field". Wouldn't trade our years homeschooling (7 yrs) & then hybrid schooling (last 3-4 yrs) for the world. We parents are the primary educators for our children. Good job, and hope you have a great first year of homeschooling FIVE!! 😳🙏😁God bless you mama Angela!! 💪🏼😊
We are trying 4 days a week with year round schooling this year. I think it will help us stick to a better routine. I would love to see what you keep in your binder that you pulled your yearly overview from as well as a video with your hobonichi! I have a schedule just to keep us on track of our routine. Not that we have to follow it strictly but a guide to how I want our day to go. Thank you for the video!
We homeschool year around and do 3-4 days a week depending on how much I work that week (part time nurse) and sometimes do catch up on evenings and weekends. Ya do what ya gotta do! We love school at home! ❤️
We also school year round and school 4 days a week! Love the flexibility it allows us! And totally agree about taking trips and vacations during the school year. This year we switched to a calendar year schedule, so our school year runs from January-November. We take most of December off and then start fresh at the New Year. It is working well so far!
jumping into homeschooling my kids this year! Thankful for your perspective and advice, i too am a free bird!
North Carolina too. In the Raleigh area. We school 4 days a week and have tried different schedules we’ve done modified none year 6 weeks on 1 week off. This year we are going straight thru and will have 2 months break. I have high schools and they plan to work and travel during the break
Just came across your channel! I have decided to home school my soon to be first grader with two other children at home ages 3 and almost a year old. Thanks for the help and guidance!
I don’t have kids but I love you’re channel! Sending loads of love from the UK 🇬🇧
We are year round homeschoolers as well(ish). We ended May 18th and we started back July 9th with math and language arts, but we do a co-op with friends for science and history so we are picking that up in the fall. Until then we are doing various nature studies and interest led learning. The fall is also when we will add in the rest of our subjects.
I found this year that our 7 week break was way too long and my kids forgot simple math concepts that they had learned last school year. So now we are reviewing math. In the past we’ve continued math and language arts through the summer so I already feel like we are behind. But we will plug along until we take a week off for the beach, then jump into all our other subjects.
Then we roughly do a 6 week on, 1 week off schedule- except for between Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. I love the flexibility that homeschooling provides and so excited to see your journey this year with 5!
We will definitely be doing year-round homeschooling. The school system here breaks from the end of June until September. We are teachers and definitely see the need for review as most students forget what they learned in the previous school year. Thanks for sharing!
I homeschool 3 kids and love year round schooling. It feels much more flexible and less stressful when there are interruptions. Really loving your new channel!!!! 😆💟
We are homeschoolers too & we homeschool 5 days a wk. We just started traditional homeschooling in January, so we are thinking of doing year round we started our new school year yesterday. Hope u & ur lil ones have an amazing homeschooling year.☺️
I am becomimg a teacher and it's really interesting for me to hear the pros of homeschooling and how the "System" works. I really enjoy your second Chanel with this special topics.
Lots of love from germany 😘
We year round homeschool too! We do anywhere from 3-4 days a week bc of life! Like you said with a large family there is always something going on. We just need that flexibility. And I really enjoy taking time off when needed or for trips during the off season.
In New Zealand we have four school terms, we have 3 lots of 2 week breaks and then a 6 week break around Christmas (our Summer).
I completely agree about the positives of year-round homeschooling. I wasn’t homeschooled, but ever since I started college, I never took a summer off. I get more out of my college experience without long breaks- and I’ve been in college for 5 years (and counting).
I can’t picture myself ever having a “summer break” for me or my future children.
Thank you for your input! We homeschool and love it.
We homeschool year round at the moment. We also school 4 days per week, clean and play on the fifth too (this is mostly my prek and k). My grade 12er schools everyday usually, unless he is far enough ahead to take a day off.
Great video, this is our fifth year homeschooling and our 3 year doing school year round. It is really nice to be able to take small breaks when we need them. Over the past few years myself and/or my daughters have had some medical issues that required extra doctor appointments. Love the flexibility. Thanks for this new channel!
Love your videos!
This is our second year homeschooling and I will have 5 kiddos this year as well! We moved to more of a year round schedule this year and I'm excited to see how it pans out!
I just wanted to say thank you SO very much for your amazing info, tips, and advice!! You're awesome!! I'm new to homeschooling... so you and this one other lady that I watch have been absolute sanity savers for me!! Just thank you❤
I've loved watching your other channel and now I'll be following here. :) I'm not having children yet, but I love hearing about homeschooling because my significant other was homeschooled for high school (it helped him A LOT) and I have loved the idea of homeschooling forever. Thank you for sharing!
We do the same thing with year round homeschooling. Usually in the summer months it's much more laid back and we don't do all the things, but we always do something. Math, spelling, some great library books are always part of the equation. We do educational vacations too.
I homeschool mine year round and aim for 3-4 days a week of book work. We just took 3 weeks off for various activities and will be starting up on Monday. Then we will go for 6 weeks. Then it is 1 week off for the beach. Love the flexibility that going year round provides.
I belong to the year round phylosophy and might do the 4day a week thing. 180days is the standard if you do four days a week work twelve week term take a week off then go back its about the same. Very young children yet. I have childcraft book set and I am setting up a system with that to do one listen a day. Rotating through different subjects with a focus on holidays and birthday volume "calander" I am working on deciding how to organize. We will increase complexity as the children approach school age and will actually be doing school.
We homeschool 4 days a week also- Tuesday-Friday. Monday are our co-op day and my husbands day off so we don't school on that day. I also try to make any appointments for Monday's too. We also school from September to may and have a nice long summer- it's amazing!! We do have to do a little bit of review at the beginning, but a lot of our curriculum is kind of made for that anyway, so it works out fine for us!
Forgive my ignorance, what's a co-op day?
d y it's just a bunch of homeschool families that come together to do school together!! Some co-ops are super laid back and just do events/field trips together, while others are more academic- getting together to do classes together. We attend an academic co-op. Once a week for two different semesters around 30 families get together and basically have school!! It's great! So many great relationships and so many greats resources!! It's been invaluable to our family!
I’m a year-rounder as well! My kids are 4 and 6 so I really only have formal curriculum for my oldest. We stick to a four day a week schedule for flexibility, plus with her age I like to take it a little easier on her.
I LOVE your idea on counting out every lesson and making a checkable list to see how you’re progressing throughout the year. I’m going and doing that right now.
I’m loving your new channel! I mean I love your other channel too, but I’m addicted to homeschool content! Lol
We usually homeschool year round. This year we took some time off during the summer for my foot surgery and the boys have been so bored. Definitely going to continue year round from here on out.
Agree we started homeschooling Feb this year, I knew year around was going to be our go to. Both boys in 2 months they are already 1 grade ahead of their grade level! Hour and half a day 3 was this summer off.....amazing! We haven’t rushed but also no reviewing for months.
In NZ we have 3 blocks of 2 weeks off and a 6 week holiday over Christmas
We have 5 kids, ages 16, 12, 3, 2, and almost 4 months. The oldest two homeschool, using an online curriculum. We also do year round homeschooling, 4 days a week generally. Depending on what appointments we have each week, sometimes more, sometimes less. We plan on homeschooling the youngest three also, when they’re ready. I plan on making my own curriculum with them, so that’ll be interesting and full of fails, I’m sure. I love following your family!
This is great! I am also free spirit... so this is SO helpful! I'm so thankful I found your page:)
We homeschool year round and 5 days/week. For the same reasons: we vacation when we want and we also take a day or two off throughout the year for different reasons. Rather than having a “makeup” day, it all just balances out. We love it and have been keeping a pretty quick pace curriculum wise. Though we are starting My Father’s World in September and that definitely has more scheduled curriculum than I had been incorporating myself.
If you want you can do your looping basket the fifth day if you feel like you need to.
This year and the past 3 years (starting 4th homeschool year)..we have started the 1st full week in August and every 6-8 weeks or so we take a week or two off. We school for 5 days a week. But our Fridays are our fun days (field trips, activities) But our next school year we will be transitioning into year round!
Year round is so great. We school from July - the end of May and I love the flexibility it creates.
I would love to see what your binder looks like! This is our second year homeschooling, and I have struggled to find a good binder system for planning that actually works for me. I tend to be a free spirit too and schedules are not my thing at all.
My dad is a public school Spanish teacher, so we always did kind of a hybrid calendar. We would have a traditional summer break, but we did school five days a week and any days that he had in-services, but then we would usually take a fall break and other long weekends here and there. I was also an only child, so it was easier for us to be flexible :)
On a side note - I love your haircut! And I would love to see a tutorial on how you did your makeup over on your other channel, it's super cute!
We just wing it lol some weeks we work Monday-Thursday other times we take a week off if we are feeling burned out. Love the freedom x
I have no kids, but I love your family channel and I’m fascinated that you can home school, it’s not something that is really big in my country and I think the few that do are more restricted in what/when they have to do it (though I could be wrong!). I just love your family, your attitude and outlook and it makes me smile to watch your channels so of course I had to also subscribe to this one despite not having kids! 😁
Hi! I homeschool 5 days a week BUT one day is entirely devoted to our Co-Op. So, kinda 4 days a week. I am schooling a 4 and 6 year old with a tagging along toddler. This is our second year homeschooling and our first year trying to school year round. We did a few review lessons last summer that seemed to work well for my eldest and helping her to remember what we learned. So, now I am hoping to do three days of school each week this Summer. I mainly focus on Math, reading and writing at this stage so scheduling has not been complex for me, yet. But, your video was encouraging thanks!
We totally do this too, even though we technically homeschool through a charter. I love to have time off when we want and have time to do home projects when we need it.
Hello Angie, in the Netherlands it is illegal to homeschool your kids, but wish I could have homeschooled my adoptionson. He has had so much problems in school. I think you're doing great. 🌻🌼
This is the way we homeschool as well. Books and field trips!
We homeschool year round and I cannot imagine taking 3 months off now. We all wouldn't do well :) We do 6 weeks on and 1 week off - a little more in December. I would love to see your planner and lesson checklists or a visual of where you keep the lessons broken down. I guess where do you check off each lesson completed? LOOOOOOOVE your new channel!
This will be our first year on a year-round schedule for a few reasons, most of what you already listed. You mentioned retention, which was a big reason for me, but also... Trying to stick to something close to what the public schools are using resulted in a lot of burn out for both me and my daughter, so the shorter blocks of homeschooling with a nice week or two in between to reset ourselves has really been nice. Right now, we're using a five-day week, but I might transition us to four. With me only needing 160-180 days to cover materials, I currently have more and longer breaks than I'd like, and I think switching to four days would not only give us a more relaxed week but would also space out my school year a little better.
I love hearing your approach. In our house for the summer our way of learning is strictly hands on and outdoor learning. And of course our summer reading program. Love your videos by the way!! Look forward to more 🤗
Thank you so much for your video! I'm a homeschool Mom. This will be our first year-round Homeschool. I'm doing videos but in spanish lol Have fun with everything and God bless you and your family!
We started last year pretty much following the schools in our area, but we started back this week which is sooner than the schools in our area and I plan to be able to take a longer Christmas break and a shorter summer next year. I found this summer was too long and they needed lots of refreshers. So I guess I’m leaning more toward year round 😊
You pretty much summed up our process, lol. I do like the crossing out each lesson number idea!
I love the crossing off number of lessons idea!!! Super helpful. We do 6 weeks on and one week off! We started this week since it’s so hot where I live. But we have been off since the end of April (when it was perfect weather to be outside).
I'd love to see your planner
I am hoping to homeschool and I plan to do it year round. We are Jewish so holidays pop up all the time and sometimes frequently so it makes sense to be able to take a nice big break for Passover and during the fall holidays.
Very similar to how I plan. I’m a type B with perfectionist tendencies 🤦♀️so I can’t do tradition lesson plans. Instead I make checklists. I take some time before our school year starts, binge watch RUclips videos, and type out lists of the lessons for each resource we’re going to use in a Google doc. Print those out and put them in my homeschool mom binder. Then we just “do the next thing” and cross off as we go. Helps me know where we’re at and what we need to do next without the stress and failure of detailed lesson plans.
I think you are doing a wonderful homeschooling year.
FIRST OFF- You're beautiful. jeeze louise.
Second- You, my friend, are such a Rockstar. I'm a pretty darn organized person with my 4 kids, one having a learning disability, but thinking of taking on homeschooling seems absolutely terrifying to me. This sounds like so much work, so I completely commend you for it. I subscribed to this channel thinking in some way it may help me because I do a lot of tutoring and school work with my stepdaughter who has a learning disability and I'm always looking for ways to help her.
Just a quick question to homeschool parents. Do you not worry about them missing out, I’m 25 and I can’t help but think about how many mad and crazy and amazing memories I have from high school, being part of school bands, sports teams, going to proms and house parties, sleepovers, the amazing relationship with teachers and other peers. Although I don’t think homeschool kids are anti social, there is a large part of that school feeling you can’t recreate.. and I would really hate to see any of my kids miss out on all the amazing memories I got to make
Keira Manners I can't speak for every homeschooler but I was concerned about the same before homeschooling but there are so many opportunities to be involved in groups, co-ops, field trips etc that we could be out everyday busy if we wanted to. Also homeschoolers create their own atmosphere of relationships, sleep overs, vacations together etc. We can enjoy all the splash pads and pools together making memories while everyone else is in school, head to the beach with other families when it's not crowded and believe it or not we still have yearbooks, class pictures, prom etc. Once you are in the homeschooling world it's a community in and of itself, they don't miss out on a thing.
Keira Manners You can still do a lot of that outside of school if you have them participate in activities. You can still do sports and creative classes outside of school like ballet or soccer. So you can have friendships through that, have sleepovers, and develop relationships with your instructors. Also there are homeschool groups were you can meet with other kids and go on field trips. The only thing I’m unsure of is dances like prom.
There are lots of resources for these things outside of school. Community centers, homeschool groups, ect... They can play sports, they make friends, they go to dances. Some even have prom. Many states allow homeschoolers to participate in school sports and drama/music programs. They can do the same things public school kids do as far as extra-curricular things go.
I am starting my homeschool journey with my 2 year old... we do about 15-20 monday through saturday, and church on sunday, as time allows. We get pretty busy but i cover colors numbers phonics signlanguage sensory play and shapes daily so if we skip a day or two i know were good. Also shes two so shes contantly learning anyway soo..
Love this video! I have a 1.5 year old and a babe on the way, and I can’t wait to homeschool them! How do you manage homeschooling kiddos of different ages/grades? I would love to see maybe a look into a sample of how to teach a 4th and 6th grader and how you keep everything straight if that makes sense? Seriously LOVE this content Angie, thank you!
Just found your channel and loving it! We are in our first homeschool year homeschooling and youtube has been so helpful. Thanks for sharing. We do a 4 day a week schedule and vacation in the off seasons too here in NC!
I absolutely love watching your videos. Thank you for your tips. I have decided to home school my kiddos for the first time this coming school year....which is a bit overwhelming when thought about..BUT I am also excited about due to the flexibility. I have decided to use the FLEX program with our school system.. which is part of their Virtual School but it's NOT full time. It is more catered to a "home school" schedule. Again, thank you for your videos. FYI.. real mom and raw moments with baby screaming in the background... I LOVE IT!!!
Not homeschooling yet, my baby's only 6m, I'm just doing research and getting ideas. Right now I'm thinking we'll do 4 days a week and then have a library day. I also think I want to have a break from Thanksgiving until after New Years because I always thought it was silly to go back to school for that brief few weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas where nothing gets done.
Love this. I've just recently decided to do a year-round homeschooling. Still gotta do that math and planning to see what exactly our family will need when the curricula come in, but it just seems like the best option for us. And I agree with the off-season thing: Nothing like going to the beach in October when no one is around! Fills my introverted heart with joy, lol!